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The natural increase of the population by excess of births over
deaths during the last three-quarters of 1894 was (584—229)=355.
Number of People to the Acre.—The area of the parish amounts
to 639 acres, and this split up among the parishioners represents
51.5 people to the acre, as against 58.2 in London generally.
The area of the Northern Division amounts to 440 acres, and
the estimate is 27.7 people to the acre.
The area of the Southern Division amounts to 199 acres, and
the estimate is 104.1 people to the acre.
It will be seen therefore that in the Southern Division there
are nearly four times more people to the acre than in the Northern
Division. This great difference is largely due to the fact that the
large open spaces of Clissold Park and The New River Company's
Water Works are included in the area of the Northern Division,
whereas the Southern Division includes no such open spaces.
Births—Birth-rate.—During the last three-quarters of the year
1894 there were 584 births registered in the parish ; of these, 299
were of males, and 285 were of females. The birth-rate per 1,000
per annum was only 23.1 ; for the same period the birth-rate for
England and Wales was 29.2, and that for the 33 Great Towns
was 30.3.
[From the returns for the whole of the year the rate amounts
to 22.2. There are only six among the other 42 sanitary areas of
the Metropolis with lower rates, whereas in 3 districts the rate
exceeds 40. The birth-rate of Stoke Newington for 1892 was 23.6,
that for 1893 was 23.9.]
The part which the low birth-rate of the parish plays in the
production of our low death-rate, representing as it does the
bringing into the population of only a comparatively small number
of those among whom the liability to death is exceptionally great,
is one which is taken into account in estimating the corrected
death-rate.